Shady Machine
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So 6 day camp and game start the next day? That's pretty insane.
Still waiting on the Pens' new schedule. The couple guys I am splitting the tickets with plan on meeting Monday, and am anxious to see what we end up with. From what I hear the games will start either the 16th or 19th, and either be 48 or 50 games. Meaning 24 or 25 home games. I am guessing no preseason or at least I would hope not. Would be kind of ridiculous. But you would think that they would have announced the schedule by now.
And when would be the trade deadline? 20 games into the season? Lose 4 or 5 in a row early on and do you become a seller? Will be an interesting thing to see play out.
And when would be the trade deadline? 20 games into the season? Lose 4 or 5 in a row early on and do you become a seller? Will be an interesting thing to see play out.
I believe the league wants April 8th, but it hasn't been agreed on yet.
That's about when it was in 1994, no?
Later date likely means more sellers. Next year's cap may mean the same.
Question: I was reading USA Today today )), and there was a reference to a clause allowing teams to trade cap space. That is, you could acquire a player and the team trading him can keep up to 50% of the cap hit. Read that you can do three deals like this a year. Is this right, or did they get it wrong?
You mean '95 Kirk? I honestly can't remember.
I'm trying to figure out how moving cap space works, but I know Burke will be happy and we should see more trades throughout the season now. Got tired of only seeing trades at the deadline.
Was never like that before the cap.
Can someone explain this better to me?:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-p...p-circumventing-contracts-153717517--nhl.html
I thought I was doing the math correctly but wasn't getting their numbers.
I'm probably just messing up something real simple.
1. Yes, I mean 1995. Senility is a *****.
2. Yes, you can trade cap space. Terms are below.
http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/21219/trades-cheat-deals-and-more-cba-details
RETAINING SALARY IN TRADES
This was Brian Burke’s baby, an idea he pushed for years at GM meetings. Under the old CBA, teams could not absorb any part of a salary from a player they were trading -- unlike baseball for example.
But in this new agreement, teams will be able to do that.
Here are the main parameters of the rule: A club cannot absorb more than 50 percent of the players’ annual cap hit/salary in any trade. Any NHL club can only have up to three contracts on their payroll in which the contract was traded away under the retaining salary proviso. Also, only up to 15 percent of your upper limit cap amount can be used up by the money you have retained in trades.
For example, let’s say the Maple Leafs want to trade little-used blueliner Mike Komisarek and his $4.5-million cap hit ($3.5 million salary this year) to the New York Islanders (hypothetically). The Leafs could retain half the cap hit -- $2.25 million -- and half the salary -- $1.75 million -- in order to facilitate the deal. The Islanders would pay him the other half. This should facilitate more trades around the league, no question.
EDIT: This definitely opens some possibilities for the Pens, both as a buyer and a seller. Maybe the market for Martin where the Pens eat a million or so of his salary yields a far better return. Maybe the Pens as a buyer look at teams with a big contract where they don't want to take it all but might take 75% or so. This definitely means a lot more business, IMO.
Just saw That's Hockey and they said April 5th.
LeBrun then echoed everything I said about how trading cap space would create more hockey trades and trades would likely happen more throughout the year.
Very nice to hear.
I wonder if you'll think so, when the deadline comes and Paul Holmgren gives up Schenn and the rest of the young cupboard in exchange for Cammallerri, J-Bo, and Kiprusoff at a combined 9.2M cap hit for this year and next (where he easily can solve next year's problem with compliance buyouts of the head case and Briere). FYI, that 9.2M is a 50% off hit . . . Calgary's owner can afford it, and it definitely would accelerate a rebuild.
Put it this way (as I have elsewhere): You can have Cammy for 3M. You can have J-Bo for 3.3M. Balance of this year and next. What are they worth to you at THAT number?
Imagine if TB puts Vinny (or even Malone) out at a third off. Any interest in Havlat at half the cap hit? Not a Wideman fan at 5.25M. What about 3M?
There aren't a ton of guys like this, but a team like Calgary could do quite the accelerated rebuild if Iggy forces their hand.
Has anything been decided about realignment yet?